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Someone call Maury Povich.But in response to evolutionary dick-measuring contest among males, the females have had to adapt, tooThe female beetles are boning several males at once, so the one with the spiniest dick might be most likely to become the fatherMandelbaumNew Calculation Could Spell Trouble For a Popular Theory of the Universe&apos;s OriginToday 2:25pm7209.4KGizmodo Ryan FPatty Brennan, a biologist at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts who was not involved with the study, told New Scientist that it was cool to see the effect across several populations, rather than just one, since thats the scale at which evolution works.May the weirdest dick and the strongest copulatory duct win.Bugs have some weird sexWatch Some Animals Eat Each Other While They BoneScientists Froze Some Grasshoppers Mid-Bang to Study Their Genitals You Will Feel Unclean Watching This Video of Bee SexRyan FEat enough of it, and you can experience more serious effects, like vomiting, abdominal pain and yes, even deathbut only at high enough dosesExcept rather than fighting over weapons and weapons defenses, these beetles are evolving the craziest dicks and dick-defenses.Some male beetles are traumatic mateslike lions and some snakes, theyve got spiky genitals meant to hurt females while boningSince hot peppers are 85% water, that means there are 0.023 grams of capsaicin per gram of fresh Dragons BreathThe signaling substances make her lay more eggs and make her use that males sperm to fertilize her eggs, rather than other malesEr, actually, they kind of areA study in mice found the minimum lethal dose of capsaicin is 100 milligrams per kilogram of body weightBeetle Genitals Are Undergoing an Insane Evolutionary Arms RaceRyan F'Worlds Hottest Pepper' Will Have You Breathing Fire, But It Wont Kill YouJake Buehler5/19/17 3:40pmFiled to: spicy claimsYou Probably Still Shouldn't Eat Ithot pepperssciencefood sciencecaspacianbiologyplant science1019EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkImage: Lauren Topor / Flicker Creative CommonsNot all hot peppers are created equal, and few are as unequal as the Dragons Breath chilia new breed that may soon find itself atop the worlds hottest throneFor an habanero-sized pepper, which look twice as large as the fruits Smith created, that would be about 25-30 peppers.AdvertisementRealistically, its probably impossible to breed a pepper so spicy that just one could kill you with its heatKinja is in read-only modeSimilar warnings are common for any drug or supplement where anyone has had a serious reaction, including Advil and AspirinMandelbaumI Ventured to the Most Radioactive Spot in Town With This Super High-Tech Radiation CameraYesterday 3:00pmForged by Wales horticulturalist Mike Smith, the red-orange, fingernail-sized fruit is the unintentional product of a trial of a new performance-boosting plant food developed by Nottingham Trent UniversityAbout BlogNeed Help?Content GuideGizmodo StoreRedirecting to the Gizmodo store in Disclaimer: You are leaving a Gizmodo Media Group, LLC website and going to a third party site, which is subject to its own privacy policy and terms of use.ContinuePermissionsPrivacyTerms of UseAdvertisingJobsRSS2017 Gizmodo Media GroupShareTweetAbout BlogNeed Help?Content GuideDeadspin StoreRedirecting to the Deadspin store in Disclaimer: You are leaving a Gizmodo Media Group, LLC website and going to a third party site, which is subject to its own privacy policy and terms of use.ContinuePermissionsPrivacyTerms of UseAdvertisingJobsRSS2017 Gizmodo Media GroupScientists can convert between the amount of capsaicin per gram of dried pepper and SHUs; the Dragons Breaths 2.48 million SHUs translates to 0.155 grams of capsaicin per gram of dried pepperThats pretty fiery, but despite what much of the media coverage of this new pepper has claimed, the Dragons Breath is not lethally hot.Smith had the pepper tested and claims it registers 2.48 million Scoville heat units (SHUs), which, if verified by the folks at Guinness, would be a world record for heatShareTweetSince the average adult person weighs 58-81 kilograms, a fatal human dose would be between 5.8 and 8.1 grams, if we go off of the mouse numbers.AdvertisementIf, as Smith contends, the Dragons Breath registers 2.48 million Scoville heat units, itd be nearly 1 million SHUs more intense than the Carolina reaper, which averages 1.57 millionNot that they will get their chance to experience the cripplingly-hot flesh of this pepper anytime soonWe are working to restore service 79c7fb41ad